Two Mercer County Men plead guilty in domestic violence cases

TRENTON — Two Mercer County men pleaded guilty Thursday in two separate domestic violence cases.

Calvin Little,45, plead guilty to a first degree kidnapping charge, for attacking and then forcefully pushing his wife into a car from her home located on the 400 block of Reservoir Street in Trenton , terrorized and allegedly sexually assaulted her for hours before she was able to escape when Little parked the car in Ewing Township.

The 45 year old defendant reluctantly agreed as the prosecution rehashed the series of events that occurred on May 9, 2011.

“Mr. Little, you and your wife were not getting along at the time this happened, is that correct?” said Assistant Public Prosecutor Stacey Geurds. “You two were actually not living together at the time and you waited outside her house for her to come home, you grabbed her, there was a tussle to get her into the car, and you inflicted bodily injury during the struggle to get her into the car,” she continued.

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After a long silence, the defendant agreed to the facts the evening.

According to reports, the victim, who was 39 at the time of the attack, had a restraining order against Little who hid in the garage and grabbed his wife by the hair before shoving her back into her vehicle. After allegedly sexually assaulting her in an undisclosed location, the women pretended to be unconscious in the back seat of the car, Little continued to terrorizing the victim by driving her to another location in Ewing.

When the man tried to get into the backseat of the car, the woman used a screwdriver, which was in the vehicle, to stab Little multiple times in the torso. She escaped and ran to a home where she called the police for help.

“She had to assault you with a sharp object to get away from you, because you had no intention of letting her go at that moment,” said Geurds. The defendant paused, shook his head and then agreed with the prosecutor.

In an unrelated incident, Thomas Hughes, 56, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault charges, for stabbing his wife, Kathy Hughes, on March 12, 2012. According to the prosecutors, the victim sustained deep lacerations and serious bodily injury when Hughes used a knife to stab his wife in the chest multiple times.

Mrs. Hughes, who survived the incident, refused to be in court to face her attacker. Mr. Hughes’ sister was present in the court to support her brother. “She’s a bitch and he was drunk,” said the sister who refused to release her name. “(Kathy) provoked him and she’s an idiot.”

Hughes, who faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail, and Little who faces a maximum sentence of 14 years in jail, will be formally sentenced on April 23, 2013.